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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tryout of Pocket Books-10,000 copies of each title-was confined to the New York area. At first week's end they were a sellout. (First to go were Wuthering Heights and Dorothy Parker's Enough Rope, with The Bridge of San Luis Rey and Felix Salten's Bambi bringing up the rear.) Macy's sold 4,100 copies in six days. Booksellers said they brought new faces into their stores. Newsstands did an arm-aching business, as did Grand Central Terminal "train butchers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cheap Books | 7/10/1939 | See Source »

...readers he was at the height of his power, carried more weight than any critic before or since. To his praise were due the sensational sales of A. S. M. Hutchinson's saccharine If Winter Comes, of Thornton Wilder's The Bridge of San Luis Rey, many another novel of equal flimsiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Humanities' Playboy | 4/17/1939 | See Source »

...publishers' readers "made bold to class this unusual first novel with The Bridge of San Luis Rey." A bold blurb, it is something less than accurate. The main aptness of the comparison is that Author Myers' story also collapses, too lightly constructed to support its load of symbolism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Moppets' Crusade | 3/6/1939 | See Source »

Play. To Novelist Thornton Niven Wilder for Our Town (TIME, Feb. 14), his second Pulitzer Prize (first awarded for The Bridge of San Luis Rey...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Pulitzer Prizes | 5/9/1938 | See Source »

...Town (by Thornton W11der; produced by Jed Harris). Last week 40-year-old Novelist Thornton Wilder (The Bridge of San Luis Rey) achieved a 25-year-old ambition. He became a playwright in full Broadway standing. His play, moreover, proved him as adventurous in the theatre as he is cloistered at novel-writing. Concerned with life in a small New Hampshire community, Our Town is performed with nothing on the stage but a few tables, chairs and stepladders to indicate the town's geography. Partly imitating Chinese methods, Playwright Wilder has veteran Actor Frank Craven serve as property...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Feb. 14, 1938 | 2/14/1938 | See Source »

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